Licensed School Based Outpatient Therapist - Lehigh Valley Area

Lehigh Valley Health Network • Allentown, PA

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About The Position

The Licensed School Based Outpatient Therapist will provide individual, group, and family therapy to students in a school setting, focusing on trauma-related issues. This role involves maintaining patient care plans, facilitating referrals, and ensuring effective communication with other medical team members to support the mental health of students.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in psychology, counseling, social work or education.
• 3 years experience with counseling child and adolescent populations.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care.
• LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - State of Pennsylvania Upon Hire or LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - State of Pennsylvania Upon Hire.

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual

Responsibilities

• Employs counseling and education skills in nontraditional settings including home and school to help patients/families understand, accept, and follow recommendations for care.
• Restores patients to optimum psychosocial and health adjustment.
• Evaluates and develops a quality plan of intervention with relevant measurable problems, goals, objectives, and timelines.
• Completes documentation on the same day of clinical contact and ties progress notes and other clinical documentation to the treatment plan.
• Documents explicit follow-up instructions to other medical team members.
• Initiates and facilitates referrals for patients' mental health services both within the network and the community.
• Maintains caseload every week.
• Schedules time to enable open scheduling and same-day clinical encounters.
• Assesses, educates, and intervenes regarding financial or billing issues and documents all insurance contacts/authorizations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 10,001+ employees